castoff

Example Sentences

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The Seahawks traded their starting quarterback to another franchise that was desperate for one and turned to someone else’s castoff to replace him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

He was brought here by Ned Colletti before the 2014 season as a New York Mets castoff.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024

Perhaps that fictitious fish and its castoff fate from half a century ago resonate so deeply in me today because I recently included a similar creature in my new novel, "The Suicide Museum."

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2023

I’ve been given castoff items from “downsizing” family members, and overwhelmingly, it’s junk that just needed to be thrown in the trash or donated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Breakfast that morning was a feast—a bit of the rice boiled to a gruel in a castoff earthenware pot, served up in a bowl carved from a gourd.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park